June

7th EUROPEAN conference on NUMERICAL METHODS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGENEERING - NUMGE
June 2-4, 2010, Trondheim, Norway
The European Regional Technical Committee ERTC7 - Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering has the pleasure to invite you to attend the 7th European Conference in Trondheim, Norway 2010. This conference is the seventh in a series of conferences organized by the ERTC7 (Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering) under the auspices of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The first conference in this series was held in 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany and continued every four years (1990 Santander, Spain; 1994 Manchester, United Kingdom; 1998 Udine, Italy; 2002 Paris, France; 2006 Graz, Austria).
First announcement & Call for Abstracts

EUROPEAN Rock Mechanics Symposium - Eurock 2010
June 15-18, 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eurock 2010 is an ISRM Regional Symposium of Europe. The Symposium covers all the aspects of rock mechanics and rock engineering, from theoretical research to engineering practice, with emphasis on applications to natural hazards prevention, infrastructural construction and sustainable development.).
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 15th of November 2009.
Please visit the website: http://lmr.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/lmr/op/edit/lang/fr/pid/70055
Announcement

EUROPEAN Rock Mechanics Symposium - Eurock 2010
June 15-18, 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eurock 2010 is an ISRM Regional Symposium of Europe. The Symposium covers all the aspects of rock mechanics and rock engineering, from theoretical research to engineering practice, with emphasis on applications to natural hazards prevention, infrastructural construction and sustainable development.).
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 15th of November 2009.
Please visit the website: http://lmr.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/lmr/op/edit/lang/fr/pid/70055
Announcement

July

14th international Conference on experimental Mechanics - ICEM14
July 4 -9, 2010, Poitiers, France
ICEM14 will focus in all aspects of experimental mechanics and will include sessions devoted to advanced developments applied to structures, materials and environmental issues. The technical program of ICEM14 will be the product of hard work anddevotion of more than 100 world leading experts to whom I am greatly indebted. ICEM14 will comprise invited lectures by eminent academics from all around the world together with contributed oral presentations covering all aspect of experimental mechanics. During the conference special symposia covering major areas of research activities organized by members of the Scientific Advisory Board will take place.
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to the 25th of October 2009 (http://www.icem14.fr/abstractsubmission.php).
Please visit the website: http://www.icem14.fr/

WCCM/APCOM 2010, 9th World congress on computational mechanics
and 4th asian pacific congress on computational mechanics,
Sidney, Australia, 19-23.JULY, 2010,

Mini-Symposium in Computational Mechanics - 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics
July 19-23, 2010, Sydney, Australia
This symposium is dedicated to Professor Ioannis Vardoulakis. Organisers encourage abstracts submission in the areas related to the Prof. Vardoulakis
contributions to fundamental computational geomechanics.: Bifurcation theory, mesh-dependency in FEM, constitutive modeling of shear bands and enriched continua modeling. To submit an abstract please follow this link: http://www.wccm2010.com.
Announcement

August

Sept

5th international conference on unsaturated soils
September 6-8, 2010, Barcelona, Spain
The series of International Conference on Unsaturated Soils ("UNSAT" conferences) constitute the main event in the field. UNSAT 2010 will provide the opportunity to take stock of the current state-of-the-art and to set the bases for future advances. The aim of the organizers is to provide an effective environment to present, review and discuss advances in the theory and application of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics. In addition to classical topics, the scope of the conference has been enlarged to cover new areas (swelling rocks, rockfill mechanics, multiphase media, and freezing soils) where present concepts on unsaturated soils have proved to be particularly useful.
For more detailed information and Call for Abstracts, please visit the website at: http://congress.cimne.upc.es/UNSAT2010/
The deadline for Abstract's reception was extended to mid-July.

October

 IS-Shanghai 2010
International  Symposium on Geomechanics and Geotechnics: from Micro to Macro
Oct. 10 . 2010 , Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Soils are composed of grains but they are generally treated as continua in the classical framework of geomechanics. Their macroscopic response under loading, such as their non-linearity and anisotropy, is controlled by their micro-structure, the characteristics of the grains and the disposition of contacts between them. There have been rapid advances in technology both to investigate the microscopic properties of soils, and to simulate their granular behaviour explicitly through Discrete Element Method (DEM). DEM was originally used to reproduce element tests, but it is now being advocated for boundary-value problems. This symposium aims to provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas and information on experiments, numerical models and engineering applications related to the discrete nature of geomaterials.
First announcement & Call for Abstracts
http://geotec.tongji.edu.cn/is-shanghai2010/